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California compacts vote face delay4 December 2007SACRAMENTO, California -- As reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune: "U.S. Interior Department officials said yesterday that they will postpone the last step needed to finalize the unexpected federal approval of contentious Indian gambling agreements that still must go before California voters. "The decision to defer publishing a notice of the approval in the Federal Register should avert the opening of another legal front in the expensive fight over the multibillion-dollar compacts. But it will do nothing to resolve the complex legal debate over what happens if voters reject the compacts on Feb. 5. "Compacts do not take effect until the approval is published in the Federal Register. "... "Opponents said the compacts never should have been submitted by the state. They were mailed by Secretary of State Debra Bowen on Sept. 5, nearly two months after the ballot measures were filed, a move that suspended legislation to ratify the deals..." |